Weekly Calendar

September 11 - September 15, 2000

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Seminars Announcements Conferences Calendar Archive

Items for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar can now be submitted using the new submission form. Other questions or comments related to the Weekly Calendar should be sent to Hilda Britt. Deadline for inclusion in the Weekly Calendar is noon every Wednesday. Speakers are encouraged to provide abstracts.

Orange & Blue Bar

Monday, September 11, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR - JOINT WITH COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR.
Dr. James Giles, ECE and CSL
The jamming game for packet timing channels.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
ISSUES IN K-12 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION.
Akihiko Takahashi, Teacher, Tokyo Gakugei University Elementary School; Consultant, Office of Educational Technology, UIUC
Mathematics Lessons and Lesson Study at Japanese Schools.
Abstract.
7:00 p.m. - 314 Altgeld Hall
MATHCLUB.
Abstract.

Tuesday, September 12, 2000

11:00 a.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
MAX NEWMAN TOPOLOGY.
Paul Goerss, Professor , Northwestern University;
Topological resolutions for the K(2)-local sphere.
Abstract.
11:00 a.m. - 2 Illini Hall
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS SEMINAR.
No meeting this week.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
Professor Bruce Berndt
Flowers which we cannot yet see growing in Ramanujan's garden of hypergeometric functions, elliptic functions and q-series.
1:00 p.m. - Altgeld 241
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY.
Alexander Tumanov, Professor of Mathematics , UIUC;
Riemann maps and contact transformations of CR manifolds.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
LOGIC SEMINAR.
Jeremy Smith
Computable colorings of graphs.
Abstract.
2:00 p.m. - 241 AH
STOCHASTIC AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS.
A. Puhalskii, Prof. , University of Colorado at Denver ;
Large deviations of semimartingales .
3:00 p.m. - 341 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY RAP.
Sandra Spiroff
Prime Ideals and the Chow Group, cont..
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GEOMETRIC POTPOURRI SEMINAR.
Professor Bruce Reznick
Distinct pair-sum lattice polytopes.
Abstract.
3:00 p.m. - 241 Altgeld Hall
GRAPH THEORY AND COMBINATORICS.
Bruce Reznick
Distinct pair-sum lattice polytopes.
Abstract.
4:00 p.m. - 245 Altgeld Hall
MATH 400 - INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE MATHEMATICS.
Professor Peter Loeb
The Correct Use of Infinitesimals in Analysis and Probability Theory.

Wednesday, September 13, 2000

4:30 p.m. - 114 CSRL
INFORMATION PROTECTION SEMINAR.
Ms. Diana White
An introduction to the NTRU cryptosystem.
Abstract.

Thursday, September 14, 2000

12:00 p.m. - 6.110 Engineering Science Bldg
MATH - PHYSICS (BCDE) LUNCH SEMINAR.
Professor R. G. Leigh, Department of Physics , UIUC;
D-branes and non-commutative matrix algebras, part II.
1:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ANALYTIC NUMBER THEORY.
A series of 10 minute talks.
1:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GROUP THEORY SEMINAR.
Professor Peter Brinkman
Train Tracks and Applications, II.
1:00 p.m. - 345 Altgeld Hall
NONSTANDARD ANALYSIS.
Professor Yevgenii Gordon
Boolean valued analysis and applications to extensions of Lebesgue measure, II.
2:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY.
Mr. Michael Bush
An introduction to modular curves.
2:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
ANALYSIS SEMINAR.
Professor Joseph Rosenblatt
Random Translations.
3:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
COMMUTATIVE RING THEORY.
Andrew Richardson
Local Cohomology with respect to Monomial Ideals, continued.
3:00 p.m. - 347 Altgeld Hall
GALOIS MODULES.
Professor Marcin Mazur
The Lifted Root Number Conjecture, II
4:00 p.m. - 245 Algeld Hall
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM.
Vojtech Rodl, Professor , Emory University, Atlanta, GA;
Independent Sets in Graphs on the Integers.
Abstract.

Friday, September 15, 2000

4:00 p.m. - 243 Altgeld Hall
MODEL THEORY SEMINAR.
Matthias Aschenbrenner
Ideal membership in polynomial rings over the integers.
Abstract.